Hi,
could you oblige and review the webrev below as a fix for the issue
raised in
JDK8007373, Inet6Address serialization incompatibility
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~msheppar/8007373/webrev.00/
Description:
We seem to have changed the serialization of Inet6Address in jdk8
compared with jdk7. It is causing a problem de-serializing instances (in
7) that were serialized by 8. The scope-id is not being recreated
correctly.
this is related to JDK-8004675
The fix has re-instated the scope_ifname_set variable, and sets this
explicitly during serialization (writeObject). It also
sets the scope id to 0 when the scope_ifname is determined to be null
during deserialization (readObject).
The refactoring undertaken in 8004675 has been left in place.
It will be noted that an additional issue has been raised, JDK-8010826,
arising from testing during this fix.
the scope id can be incorrect after serialization where a scoped
interface in the serialized object does not
exist on the deserializing host.
regards
Mark
